Jerome travis



(No Model.)

J. TRAVIS.

I 'WALL PAPER EXHIBITOR.

w H Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATE T rricE.

JEROME TRAVIS, OF NORTH ADAMs, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HAROLD E. YOUNG ANDEZRA s. KNOWLES, BOTH or SAME PLACE.

WALL-PAPER EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,542, dated February 8, 188'].

Application tiled February 23, 1F84. Serial No. 121,622. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME TRAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing in North Adams, county ofHillsdale, and State ofMichi- 5 gan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wall-Paper Exhibitors, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wall-paper exhibitorsin which a series ofwindto ing and tension-rollers are employed forcarrying wall-papers of different patterns connected together to form a continuous web, which web may be transferred from one roller to the other, so as to expose singly the different patterns of paper for inspection, which exhibitors are also provided with asecondseries of rollers for similarly exposing, and in their operative p0sition,a variety of borders matching orintended to be used in connection with the different wallpapers carried by the other set of rollers; and it consists in the construction hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

' Reference being bad to the accompanying 2 drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective of a wall-paper exhibitor embodying my invention when the same is in its operative position;

Fig. 2, a central longitudinal'section 'of the same; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the same folded 0 up and showing the friction springs applied to the rollers.-

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawings.

A represents a suitable frame or case, which may be closed upon its rear side, ifpreferred, and is provided with a rear support or leg, B, which may be hinged to the upper end of the case by means of a staple, as shown, by a straphinge, or any other suitable device.

The front of the case is open, but may be covered with glass or be provided with a door; and while the case and its opening are preferably rectangular in form, they may be of any other configuration. I

Journaled in the side frames of the case are,

, respectively, upper and lower parallel rollers, O D, which are quite close together and designated as winding-rollers, while toward the front of the case and respectively above and 50 below these winding-rollers are tension-rollers E F, the winding-rollers being operated by cranks G H, Fig. 1, secured on the ends ofsaid rollers, which project outside of the case.

These winding-rollers are arranged on the same plane in the case and oua plane parallel with the exposed face of a fabric, I, secured at one end to the windingroller 0 and at its other end to the winding-roller D, which fabric may be of a tough strong paper-sucl1, for instance, as Manila, or a wire or textile fabric; but I preferably employ what is commonly known as Holland, for the reason that it does not stretch, is smooth and strong, and is not liable to be affected by moisture, thoughI may use any other linen ora glazed goods, whether linen Or cotton. This fabric may be of any length consistent with the capacity of the rollers or desirable for a given number and size of samples of paper to be exhibited, and for appearance sake should be of a width corresponding with that of the opening in the case, though it may be made wider and project under the side rims, a, of the case.- To this fabric I the different patterns of paper, J, to be exhibited are pasted or otherwise se- 7 5 cured with their ends edge to edge or with a short space between them, as show-n in Fig. 2, but preferably with the space,because this obviates the necessity of exercising any particular care or exactness in squaring the ends of the pieces, which in width should be less than the fabric and not wide enough to come in contact with the sides of the case. By employing a fabric, I, of the character described, and attaching the sections of wall-paper J in the manner shown, the paper has no contact with either the winding or tension rollers, and the strain of the rollers is upon the fabric and not upon the paper; hence the paper is not liable to become torn or worn by the tension or friction of these devices.

The fabric I should extend beyond each end of the paper exhibits, so that when wound uponeither roller to the exclusion of the other the 'paper will not be exposed, but only the fabric, as indicated in Fig. 1, and the paper be covered by the fabric on the roller and thereby be fully protected when the exhibitor is notin use. This extension of the fabric I also serves to warn the operator when the exhibit is entirely off of one roller and upon the other.

In order to prevent the web I from sagging at points between the tension-rollers E and F, a board or diaphragm, K, is employed to support the web, said diaphragm being placed under the fabric and having its outer face in substantially the same plane with the tensionrollers.

L M represent a pair of rollers journaled in the case above the tension-roller E, parallel to and on the same plane with the rollers O D, which have co-operating therewith tensionrollers N O, a diaphragm, P, fabric Q, and cranks R S, similar in every respect to the devices before described, and for the purposes of exhibiting bordering W adapted to the samples of wall-paperon the lower web, the bordering being secured to the fabric in precisely the same manner as the wall-paper, and its lower tensiouroller, 0, being so near the upper edge of the wall-paper J that it will have a general appearance of being joined thereto, or at least near enough for favorable comparison.

All of the winding-rollers are preferably provided with flanges b at their inner ends, to prevent an edge contact of the web with the case, and the ends of all of these rollers opposite the cranks project through the case and have secured thereto wheels '1, having a bearingsurface on their periphery, which is engaged by curved wire or other metal springs U, which exert tension on the web, and are secured to the sides of the case, and tend to hold the rollers steady and from a too free movement, and in effect like the pressurerollers before referred to, though without con tact with the web or paper.

\Vhile I have described my invention as I especially adapted for exhibiting wall-papers,

it is obviously useful as an exhibitor of photographs and other pictorial illustrations, samples of dry-goods of various kinds, or as a mapcase.

diaphragm and on substantially the same plane therewith, with fabric attached to each set of Winding-rollers and stretched over the diaphragm and tension-rollers, one set of rollers exhibiting the paper and the other set the border at the edge of the paper, the same as when on the wall, all constructed and arranged substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a wall-paper exhibitor having two sets of winding-rollers parallel to each other and on the same plane and having a diaphragm in front of each set and tension-rollers, one above and one below each diaphragm, said diaph ragms and tensionrollers being on substantially the same plane, with fabric attachment to each set of windingrollers passing over the diaphragms and tension-rollers, one set of rollers being adapted to exhibit the paper and the other set the border at the edge of the paper, the same as when on the wall, the line of travel of the exposed face of both sets being in the same plane, of winding means at one end of the wimling-rollers and of wheels on the outside of the case at the opposite ends of the winding-rollers, having a bearing-surface on their periphery engaged by tension-springs secured to the sides of the case, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JEROME TRAVIS. Witnesses:

H. E. YOUNG, L. E. Ross. 

